PKMKII wrote:Now see, there's your problem, how can you expect people to take the team seriously in the top division when they're named after a plant?

Supporting a Scottish football team does not require you to take it seriously. In fact, it helps not to.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

Not to mention a glaring spelling error in the first word of the team's name? Come on, that's plain unprofessional.

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

PKMKII wrote:Not to mention a glaring spelling error in the first word of the team's name? Come on, that's plain unprofessional.

Well, it depends. Partick is a real place in Glasgow: it's not a mis-spelling of Patrick. It is a mis-spelling of Maryhill, however, which is where the team is based.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

PKMKII wrote:Not to mention a glaring spelling error in the first word of the team's name? Come on, that's plain unprofessional.

Well, it depends. Partick is a real place in Glasgow: it's not a mis-spelling of Patrick. It is a mis-spelling of Maryhill, however, which is where the team is based.

I know it's a real place, I was making fun of its name

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

black bart wrote:That makes a really good quiz question...can you name all the endings (prepositions, conjunctions) of British football teams eg Tottenham Hotspur, Bolton Wanderers, Partick Thistle etc...

I can't!

There are some crackers, too: Sheffield Wednesday; Plymouth Argyle; Hamilton Academicals; Leyton Orient; and who could forget Accrington Stanley?

Then there's nicknames: Cowdenbeath - The Blue Brazil; Falkirk - The Bairns; St. Mirren - The Buddies; and of course Aberdeen - The Sheepsh***ing B***ards.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

black bart wrote:That makes a really good quiz question...can you name all the endings (prepositions, conjunctions) of British football teams eg Tottenham Hotspur, Bolton Wanderers, Partick Thistle etc...

I can't!

There are some crackers, too: Sheffield Wednesday; Plymouth Argyle; Hamilton Academicals; Leyton Orient; and who could forget Accrington Stanley?

Then there's nicknames: Cowdenbeath - The Blue Brazil; Falkirk - The Bairns; St. Mirren - The Buddies; and of course Aberdeen - The Sheepsh***ing B***ards.

That's not nice.

The smoke wafted gently in the breeze across the poop deck and all seemed right in the world.

That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? - Sir Terry Pratchett

The great thing about Beaker is his ability to provoke while still being decorous, or at least within acceptable rules of conduct - Qwertyuiopasd

Scunthorpe town council had serious problems for months after installing their internet security suite. Internal emails were removed from the server, automatic banninations were banninated, it was all a ghastly nightmare. Other councils and organisations are still trying to catch up with that.

I don't know of any other town anywhere that incorporates that word, or anything like it (apart from Fucking in Germany, and Wank on the German / Austrian border).

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

Hey E.T., little suggestion for your Pats there: try playing for the entire game, instead of phoning it in for most of the 4th quarter. Although they could have done it, if Bill Belichoke's hubris hadn't of gotten in the way with that decision to go for it on 4th and 2. Or did he just have that little faith in his defense? Also, how short was that handshake with Jim Caldwell? 2 nanoseconds? Way to keep it classy Bill.

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

I dunno about the "Belichoke" moniker, PK - he's got a pretty decent record overall last time I checked. This isn't the first time he's gone for it in a similar situation - he did it earlier this year in the Falcons game, and he's done it in the past. If it works, he's a genius, if it doesn't, well I guess it's time to sell the franchise and start looking into getting a WNBA team, right? The defense was pretty well used up by the 4th, that's true, but the philosophy right along has been to let the best player try to get the job done at crunch time, and Brady's the best player they have. Nothing wrong with that. The "brief" handshake is pretty much SOP for Belicheck no matter who the other guy is.

"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-- Philip K DickOK, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard.-- Dr. JoyEnglish isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré